S05.E09: Iranian nuclear deal

[Athena]

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Other segments: Ryan Zinke
Guests: Thomas Kopache, James Van Der Beek

[iMonrey]

We truly live in a post-truth world where people like this Zinke guy can get away with repeatedly claiming to be a geologist without getting fired or voted out of office for lying. It's frightening. I guess we can just call ourselves whatever we want now. I'm an Emperor! 

Loving the Last Week Tonight keeps buying ad time on Fox in the D.C. area. Why hasn't Trump ever Tweeted what he thinks about the Catheter Cowboy?

[bijoux]

I want that podcast with The Beek to be real. 

[meowmommy]

My entire career has been as a registered nurse, but I guess I can call myself a former political scientist since poli sci was my major, back in the 70s.

38 minutes ago, iMonrey said:

Loving the Last Week Tonight keeps buying ad time on Fox in the D.C. area. Why hasn't Trump ever Tweeted what he thinks about the Catheter Cowboy?

Makes shelling out the monthly fee for HBO that much more worthwhile, doesn't it?  

Perhaps the commercials are too intellectual for him to understand.

[Skyfall]

38 minutes ago, bijoux said:

I want that podcast with The Beek to be real. 

Right!?!?

[peeayebee]

Loved the takedown of Zinke, though I was surprised John said that maybe people watching hadn't heard of him. I hope someone calls him out to his face the next time he claims to be a geologist. And as far as the commemorative coin goes, Pruitt also wanted to do something vain with his department's coin, including having his name in large letters around the rim and basically personalizing it to commemorate HIM instead of the agency. And check out Trump's presidential coin. They're all egotists.

Loved John calling Jared the goodest boy.

It's still embarrassing watching Trump claim to be smart and the most bestest of whatever. It's so shocking to me that anyone can listen to him and believe him.

[attica]

I agree that those infernal car-donation-singing children should see nuclear winter. 

[ahisma]

Holy SMOKES, Jay Goldberg talking about Cohen and prison was creepy. 

If Mike and Karen Pence think a man and a woman can‘t eat together, what the hell did they make of a man 1) dancing in public 2)with a woman not his wife. (I don't know that not asking her permission would be their issue, although that freaked me out. But he didn't ask her husband!)

Watching DJT insist he studied the Iran deal more than anyone else has, "believe me," I am more flabbergasted than ever that anyone ever voted for him. 

[link417]

4 minutes ago, attica said:

I agree that those infernal car-donation-singing children should see nuclear winter. 

The original ad they were parodying blew my mind — talk about peddling fear.

[Annber03]

4 hours ago, iMonrey said:

We truly live in a post-truth world where people like this Zinke guy can get away with repeatedly claiming to be a geologist without getting fired or voted out of office for lying. It's frightening. I guess we can just call ourselves whatever we want now. I'm an Emperor! 

I just...I don't understand. When the hell did people become okay with having somebody elected to a high office who literally doesn't have the faintest clue as to what the job entails, nor has any actual kind of experience for it? When I go on job searches just to work in freaking retail or an office, there's some jobs I can't get because I don't have the experience necessary. Yet these yahoos with zero experience can take up prominent positions in our federal government, positions that require them to deal with serious issues that affect the world at large like the sort highlighted in this episode, and that's apparently totally cool? I don't get it! 

17 minutes ago, ahisma said:

Holy SMOKES, Jay Goldberg talking about Cohen and prison was creepy. 

If Mike and Karen Pence think a man and a woman can‘t eat together, what the hell did they make of a man 1) dancing in public 2)with a woman not his wife. (I don't know that not asking her permission would be their issue, although that freaked me out. But he didn't ask her husband!)

Watching DJT insist he studied the Iran deal more than anyone else has, "believe me," I am more flabbergasted than ever that anyone ever voted for him. 

I actually said, "...WHAT?!" out loud at the end of Goldberg's bizarre comment. That was...something. Yeah. And I totally wondered the same thing about Pence and his wife during that dancing segment.

As for your last comment...god, the fucking smirk Trump gave when he was talking about studying that deal...talk about a punchable face. There's got to be somebody out there who can tell Trump once and for all to just stuff it already and force him to actually listen to and heed the advice of people who know what the hell they're doing. 

[meowmommy]

20 minutes ago, Annber03 said:

I just...I don't understand. When the hell did people become okay with having somebody elected to a high office who literally doesn't have the faintest clue as to what the job entails, nor has any actual kind of experience for it? When I go on job searches just to work in freaking retail or an office, there's some jobs I can't get because I don't have the experience necessary. Yet these yahoos with zero experience can take up prominent positions in our federal government, positions that require them to deal with serious issues that affect the world at large like the sort highlighted in this episode, and that's apparently totally cool? I don't get it! 

Can I give you, like, a thousand likes, just for this statement?

[Annber03]

Haha, I'll take 'em :D! Thanks!

[ganesh]

1 hour ago, ahisma said:

Watching DJT insist he studied the Iran deal more than anyone else has, "believe me," I am more flabbergasted than ever that anyone ever voted for him. 

Well, not more than me. So that's false. The thing is, there's 5 other nations in the deal. If the US pulls out, they still can have the deal. 

I don't get why anyone in the media just doesn't ask why Zienke thinks he's a geologist? It's easy to disprove. 

[Sharpie66]

They would have to get someone in the Trump administration to actually talk to a media person not on Fox.

[ganesh]

They go on the Sunday morning shows a lot. 

[iMonrey]

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It's still embarrassing watching Trump claim to be smart and the most bestest of whatever. It's so shocking to me that anyone can listen to him and believe him.

Yeah, it's like people watching The Three Stooges and going "Wow. They're smart." I'm more scared of those people than Trump himself.

[SuburbanHangSuite]

On 4/23/2018 at 4:02 PM, iMonrey said:

We truly live in a post-truth world where people like this Zinke guy can get away with repeatedly claiming to be a geologist without getting fired or voted out of office for lying. It's frightening. I guess we can just call ourselves whatever we want now. I'm an Emperor! 

I just applied some antibiotic cream to my cat's infected ear.  I'm a vet!!

[meowmommy]

On 4/27/2018 at 9:44 AM, SuburbanHangSuite said:

I just applied some antibiotic cream to my cat's infected ear.  I'm a vet!!

Poor meowie.  You're probably a better vet than Zinke is a geologist, though.

I think John has achieved Jon Stewart Daily Show status, as in a comedy show that often presents more news and higher quality news coverage than many of the so-called news programs.  In the same way that poems are hard to memorize but lyrics are easy to remember because they are set to music, perhaps framing news items within a comedy structure resonates more than a straight news program.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

On 4/27/2018 at 9:44 AM, SuburbanHangSuite said:

I just applied some antibiotic cream to my cat's infected ear.  I'm a vet!!

The last time Mr. EB had a headache, I told him to take some Advil.  I'm a doctor now! I was even nice enough to bring the bottle to him so I'm a pharmacist too, right? Thank goodness Zinke alerted me to my myriad of professions.

[Hanahope]

So checked Google.  Absolutely no reference to Zinke claiming to be a geologist after this show aired, or anyone confronting Zinke on his prior claims.  Hopefully that means that he's no longer claiming to be a geologist.

The Iran deal wasn't great, but at least there were inspections.  Not sure why trump felt it necessary to dump the agreement, when Iran hadn't broken it, and as JO says, 10 is bigger than 0.  obviously, JO's Catheter Cowboy commercial didn't disuade trump from listening to bolton.